island.of.thoughts

you came to muzuem beelden aan zee for the den haag onder de hemel exhibition, but you are delighted to discover another series of exhibition by a dutch artist.

island of thoughts, display of portraits made by various materials. these portraits are famous philosophers that probably have inspired the artist in one way or another.

rousseau

this portrait catches your attention, and when you look closer, you almost want to kiss on rousseau's lip. you think it's delicious because the lip is full of the orange salmon roe (ikura)... hahaha!! but seriously you do think his lip is sexy, and his nose is delicious too...

voltaire

and you love voltaire's hair, colorful and unpretentious

hannah arendt

you are attracted by her lips too, but you have no urge to kiss the mother of pearl lip (set besides that she is a woman).  you learned that she is a jewish  who survived second world war. and her famous philosophy is "forgiveness is a key to freedom and action". how true! this relates very well to what you learned on sunday about the embracing your life.  the future is more important than your past.

sartre

 his look reminds you of the older version of harry porter

descartes

 another philosopher with groom and velvet hair...

russel

 russel is boring and you wonder why you took  this shot? but he does look graciously intellectual to you...

schopenhauer

he looks more like albert einstein to you. you don't know who schopenhauer is, but you kinda like his purple hair and his porcelain finished face.

nietzsche

nietzsche, another fellow unknown to you and he is made of wood and you like his eyes...

hegel

 hegel is an ugly man, looks for like the beauty and the beast to you (sorry)

spinoza

and you double expose spinoza by combining two photos, the result is rather interesting photo than the actual portrait in the exhibition

kant

who is kant? an english or french may be? but that's simply a guess from the hair style...

erasmus, montaigne, socrates,wittgenstein

obviously there are many other philosophers on exhibition all exist for the same reason. their philosophy touches hearts and minds of others...

for this very purpose, eveline van duyl definitely achieves her goal to simulate thoughts because these portraits not only just inspire you from creativity perspective but also stimulate you to search more deeper about the knowledge that contains in the minds of these philosophers.  their minds are indeed like an island of thoughts. denkeiland in dutch.

there is a short documentary here,you found it in youtube as you follow the trail in search for the very thoughts. it is in dutch with english subtitle, this give you more insights about the work and inspiration behind the artist.

enjoy!

and just for the record, mr. sunshine finally shows up today in a most unexpected manner...